Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-15
YES LllndLtU.
Purchase of poor farm.
miscellaneous.

AN enthusiastic meeting of citizens was
held in Leavenworth the other day to con-
slider the feasibility of voting bonds to aid
in sinking additional coal shafts in or near
that city. A resolution was adopted that
the meeting recommend that $4,000 be
voted to every company which would sink
shaft, as soon as the main vein of coal is
struck.
A LODGE of Scottish Rite Masons has
been organized in Hutchinson, and the
thirty-second degree of the order conferred
upon its members.
PosT-oFFIcEs lately established in Kan
sas: Aulien, Marion County, John II.
Danskin, postmaster; Costello, Montgom-
cry County, Terry d. Bobbett, postmaster;
Monon, Stanton County, L. w. ST. Clair,
postmaster.
A HEAVY freight train on the Leaven-
worth branch of the Union Pacific road
jumped the track at the junction with the
main line near Lawrence the other night,
killing Engineer Mundon, Fireman Chase
and brakeman.
NORRIS & GREEN'S grocery establishment
at Topeka was destroyed by fire early the
other morning. The fire started on the
lower floor, near which were several tanks
of kerosene. The flames crept to the oil
tanks, and a terrific explosion followed.
The loss to the stock was about $4,000
THE receipts of the United States Collec-
tors Office for the month of August were
15,OS5.21, against S1l, S55. AZ for the CORE
spending month of last year.
ACCORDING to a recent count by Mr..
Adams, OF the State Historical Society,
Kansas has Il daily and rs weekly papers,
making a total of $40 newspaper pubIica-
tions in the State. This is an increase Of
375 since June, 1885, when there were IN
the State p daIlies and 446 weekles.
THE total expenses of the penitentiary
for the month of August were SIS, $50 SO
and the receipts SO, 543.51.
PENSIONS lately granted Kansas veterans:
Annie, widow of Samuel K. Hoot. XIII
Creek. Originals, Erastus Fl. Prall, Hol-
lenberg; William Williams, Wellington.
Increase, Nelson Chaffee, Wichita; Will
liam w. Beatty, Jonesburg; John B. Tall
man, Holton; William j. Bebb, yelling
ton; William Ivy, Winfield; Thomas q.
Van Meter, Paris; Marcellus Chiles, King
man; Henry II. Chaplin, North Cedar;
Robert j. Atwell, Douglass. Reissue, Mar
TN L. Wilson, Burden.
R. r. BoGAKT, a drummer, recently net
Miss Minnie Waldron, of St Joseph. Mo,
on a train and persuaded her to elope with
him. He took her to a Topeka hotel and
registered as husband and wife. The
father and brother OF the girl followed
them to Topeka, but the couple had coutin-
ued their flight. MISS Waldron is only
seventeen years old
CLARENCE II. VENNER, of Boston, holder
of sou shares Of the stock OF the Atchison,
Topeka, & Santa Fe Railroad Company, has
filed suit in the United States Circuit
Court at Topeka to restrain the Santa Fe
from issuing The SO, OOO, 900 stock recently
voied
The other morning George R. Alberts,
weh-known building contractor of Wichita,
WAS killed while supervising the work on
a building. A heavy derrick fell from the
second story and struck him on the head
Alberts lived for ten minutes but never re-
covered CONSCIOUSNESS.
SALINA is to have free delivery.
The State Board of Railroad Commits
siouers rendered a decision recently in The
case brought by Richard Meyer & Co.
against the Pacific and Kansas Central
Railroad companies to recover for a short
age on coal shipped from Rich Hill, No, TO
Leonardville, Kan. After reviewing the
case the Board decided that that whether
the loss by thIeving can be prevented or
not, the company is liable for that which IS
shown to have occurred while the freight
was IN is charge.
IN attempting TO board freight train at
Mexico, Mo-, Eddie Murine, thirteen years
old, whose mother resides at Topeka, feu
under the wheels and was killed.
A PENSION has been granted to Ander-
SON w. Rash, OF Wall Street, Linn County,
q Mexican war veteran.